Preface

Introduction

Welcome to the NetApp® ContentReporter^TM 3.0 Reporting Guide, a product from NetApp-The Network Appliance Company^TM, which is Serving Data By Design^TM.

This guide contains the information you need to log in to a ContentReporter server to create, schedule, and generate reports about NetCache^TM appliances and Web and streaming server log files. This guide assumes that ContentReporter is installed, processing log files, and accessible to you through a Web browser. For more information about installing and configuring the ContentReporter server, and setting up log-file collection and processing, see the ContentReporter 3.0 System Administration Guide.

Audience

This guide is for reporting users who will access ContentReporter through a web browser to create, schedule, and generate reports on NetCache Appliance, web and streaming server log files. It assumes you are familiar with your operating system, your network, caches, web and streaming servers, and the basic concepts of how data moves over a network. This guide does not cover basic system or network administration topics, such as IP addressing, routing, and network topology.

Terminology and conventions

This guide uses the term "type" to mean pressing one or more keys on the keyboard. It uses the term "enter" to mean pressing one or more keys, and then pressing the Enter key.

Keyboard conventions

When describing key combinations, this guide uses the hyphen (-) to separate individual keys. For example, "Ctrl-D" means pressing the "Control" and "D" keys simultaneously. Also, this guide uses the term "Enter" to refer to the key that generates a carriage return, although the key is named "Return" on some keyboards.

Typographic conventions

The following table describes typographic conventions used in this guide.

Convention	Type of information
Italic type	Words or characters that require special attention. File names. Placeholders, for information you must supply. For example, IP=12.34.56.78 Book titles in cross-references.
Monospaced font	Command names. Information displayed on the system console or other computer monitors. The contents of files.
Bold monospaced font	Words or characters you type. What you type is always shown in lowercase letters, unless you must type it in uppercase letters.

Convention

Type of information

Italic type

Words or characters that require special attention.

File names.

Placeholders, for information you must supply. For example, IP=12.34.56.78

Book titles in cross-references.

Monospaced font

Command names.

Information displayed on the system console or other computer monitors.

The contents of files.

Bold monospaced font

Words or characters you type. What you type is always shown in lowercase letters, unless you must type it in uppercase letters.

Special messages

This guide contains special messages that are described as follows:

Note
A note contains important information that helps you install or operate the system efficiently.

Caution
A caution contains instructions that you must follow to avoid loss of data.